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Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Consciousness Unchained

Consciousness Unchained By Stephanie Jeannot (C) 2016

“The ability of a
story (prose and poetry) to transform the storyteller

and the listener
into something or someone else is shamanistic.

The writer, as a
shape-changer, is a nahual, a shaman” (Anzaldua).

Art
can be compared to stories passed down through culture. One listens to oral
histories, picturesque and all, shared by elders and feels the magic of the
words being said, but may not be able to experience the true nature of the
culture, unless fully immersing into the illusion and going beyond the borders of
awareness to know more.

We can hear the most vivid accounts of the beauty of a
land, but never gain the true essence of it while being alien to the realness
of it all. One can only go through the metamorphosis by discovering their own
truth. Knowledge paints a different image in technicolor, that changes the face
of everything.

Language
is a wing of freedom and with it you are a warrior on the field. To have access
to freedom of speech for some is like a death wish because anything you say can
be used against you and cause the complete annihilation of your existence. What
future generation can come from that to tell the story? The knowledge of your
history then remains unforetold. The story is never relayed and the truth about
the root cause of the now is never revealed.

Consciousness, however, has no
race, creed or color. Everyone has access to it if they submit to the truth
that has always been rooted in the garden, unchained. Consciousness brings you
back to Eden where it all began and makes you fly to new realms of understanding.

Your tongue becomes your weapon and your
verbiage, the bullets. If “books are brave utensils,” then retelling of a historiography,
in your own casual and unique way, like a shaman with your palms beating into
hand-made drums will be effective (Shakespeare). The overcoming of silence is
how you exhibit the end of torment, the beginning of hope and your rainbow of hypnotic
words for a blank page.